Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EO7CTXG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/10e41w7nH2uvjbHCwq7mYZ
spotify:album:10e41w7nH2uvjbHCwq7mYZ

https://neurotrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-you-will-ache-like-i-ache

I saw both of those bands individually this year, but have yet to hear this album

73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/3EnWlb8.jpg
https://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator

tags: hard rock metal rock heavy metal Chicago

you mean there's nobody left from the original line up??
Indeed, although you can count Martin van Drunen as 'near-original' since he joined after the demos years and the (shelved) first album, he did feature on the official debut. All the other dudes are post-2007 comeback.

that's not quite as bad then

if youre on the official debut that's good enough Id say

personally I have never cared about that ish as long as the music rules, see also: Napalm Death

Next one up I thought would be in the top 30

alcest?

c'mooon Schammasch

Well for the first 20 years of the bands existence, he was in it for a grand total of 2 years (and two albums).

But the current situation around Asphyx is very fluid/incestuous, with all kinds of current and former members happily rotating between Asphyx, Hail Of Bullets, Soulburn and Grand Supreme Blood Court.

That High Spirits album is so fun. My first vote to get in.

I can never get over what a fucking great name Grand Supreme Blood Court is.

TOO LOW FOR HIGH SPIRITS!

debut full release by some members of a legendary band

72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/08z9H0n.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5FzIKMAZkGpQwiX7rTHedD
spotify:album:5FzIKMAZkGpQwiX7rTHedD
https://inverloch.bandcamp.com/album/distance-collapsed

Melbourne, Australia’s INVERLOCH, featuring 2/4 of the legendary diSEMBOWELMENT, return with one of the most anticipated full-length debuts the metal underground has seen in years. After releasing a highly lauded EP in 2012, INVERLOCH have created another masterpiece with Distance l Collapsed, a 5-song, 40-minute LP of absolutely crushing death/doom. Buzzsaw death metal riffs and bowel splitting vocals mix alongside earth shaking dirges and blasting percussion, all wrapped together in a haunting yet beautifully dreadful atmosphere. With Distance l Collapsed, INVERLOCH prove that they are one of the finest bands making extreme music today.
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released March 4, 2016

I have to say, I completely missed the memo on this.

TIE

70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sqkj0th.jpg
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/hideous-obscure
released April 18, 2016
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tags: black metal death metal metal thrash metal Ireland

70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IHNcd4Q.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8
spotify:album:0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8

That Testament record surprised me, I think I was expecting something like late 80s Megadeth.

I'm looking forward to imago listening to the testament,asphyx, metallica, megadeth, and all the other old timer bands that released albums this year

Inverloch was part of Whiney/Rolling Stone's list of Great Albums You Didn't Hear

69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/dN34XKF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KO
spotify:album:2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KO

https://ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/primal-gnosis

Horse Latitudes are known for their slow, primordial and powerful music, combining suffocating doom, black metal and hypnotic psychedelic repetition to form their colossal vision. Primal Gnosis marks the first studio contribution with Antti (Moog & noise), bringing a new dimension of dark synth into Vellu (bass), Heidi (bass) and Harri’s (drums & vocals) song-writing process.

Over the vasts spans of their tracks, the doubled-up bass guitars assail and attack notions of sparsity with a complex sense of melancholia and aggresion that, combined with the smashing constant of percussion, attain a disturbing momentum. They display their avant-ferocity in a refracted manner, confronting monastic chanting with necro savagery, leading clinically detached post-punk queues of notes in to noise-rock crevasses, all the while finding more fuel for their greedy, churning engine. A highpoint in their outré discography, and an impacting occasion for denizens of unconventional and epic heavy music.

The album was recorded in two sessions during Autumn 2015, the first taking place at Studiogenes, Ikaalinen (engineered by Kalle Nurmi), and the second at Audiospot, Helsinki (engineered by Kimmo Tyni). The album was subsequently mixed by Kalle Nurmi and mastered by James Plotkin.

CD available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-cd/

12" DLP available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-dlp/
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released April 16, 2016
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tags: rock doom doom metal drone stoner rock London

I kept seeing that name, Inverloch, but I sure didn't see any mention of who was in the band. Weird how that wasn't talked up much. I'll need to dip into it.

68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/yqkBeEP.jpg
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows

Within a very short period of time, Howls Of Ebb have spawned a creative surge of ominous might. Under the sign of I, Voidhanger Records, came 2014's debut “Vigils of the 3rd Eye” LP, and the wide brave expanse of 2015's “The Marrow Veil” MLP. These transcendental relics have surely left no doubts: this, in true form, is an incorporeal fetid and morbid darkness; yet, left to burn a long and wicked light.

And now, with immense pride and fortune, we introduce “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows” LP! We welcome you to inhale this horrifying drug while gazing upon the visionary painting by Italian master Agostino Arrivabene. Sully your minds by attempting to explain what the sounds of The Sour Bogs of Mars spilling upon vapid flesh is like; or perhaps, wondering if its possible to explain the sound of psychic cadence bombing your deep synapse?

For Howls Of Ebb's “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows” is one more step beyond “Vigils of the 3rd Eye” and “The Marrow Veil”--it is a master pendulum of transgressive osmotic reign! All Hail!
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released April 15, 2016

The limbonic hymnists of HoB are Zee-Luuuvft-Huund (vibrations, low auras, polysyllabic morbid mysticisms) and Roteen' Blisssss (cadence of limp and duress, bronze aura)

Music & lyrics - ZLH
Final arrangements - HoB

Recorded, mixed and produced at Bell Collars Bizarre
Mastered at Mike Wells Mastering

Cover art: "Theoin II" by Agostino Arrivabene

Cassette version out now via Caligari Records:
caligarirecords.storenvy.com/collections/277955-all-products/products/16413183-howls-of-ebb-cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows-cal-045

Vinyl version out later via NWN! Prod.
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tags: blackened death metal metal usa black metal death metal limbonic death black Italy

I voted for Anciients, High Spirits and Testament. I'm wondering now if the Metallica didn't make the top 100.

the death metal sections are always imago's least fave part of metal poll
along with the trad metal sections of course ;)

oh and older established band sections...

wheres dominique leone this year btw?

Cool art. Did the heads explode, or just dissolve into another dimension?

http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/paintings.php?idP=185

I voted for Howls of Ebb but I keep reading it as "Circus Impasse." Not sure what that would sound like.

67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/DAqCVea.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ
spotify:album:3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ

https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/releases

Should I go on tonight? there's a tie at #63 which is due up soon and it features an album that I thought was a surefire top 10 and possible #1 contender

or would you prefer me to stop at 65 to preserve the suspense into tomorrow?

SUMERLANDS explode onto the scene with their incredible self-titled debut album of classic heavy metal. Inspired by the timeless guitar-driven sound of the 70's & 80's, SUMERLANDS feature former Hour of 13 / Atlantean Kodex vocalist Phil Swanson and renowned producer Arthur Rizk (Inquisition, Power Trip, Pissgrave) on guitars and behind the boards! Powerful guitar riffs and galloping rhythms meld flawlessly together with soaring vocals and pristine production to create strong, hook-filled, moody anthems. This is a new wave of American Heavy Metal at its finest!
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released September 16, 2016

2016 Relapse Records
www.relapse.com
www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com

go down to 61 imo

howls of ebb seem quite interesting?

Howls of Ebb is very interesting, as is pretty much everything on I, Voidhanger Recs.

And I don't have a preference for the rollout timetable. This Inverloch has zoned me out in a pleasant way so, uh, yeah, do what thou wilt.

down to 61 today and then 20 per day thereafter seems right

interlock was in my top 5, thought it would be a little higher.

Inverloch

ok howls of ebb is by a distance the best discovery so far (although i was also digging urfaust and saor)

(and rotting christ)

dang i also forgot to vote for inverloch

66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/xAYUtS7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2
spotify:album:5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2

https://eightbells.bandcamp.com/album/landless

I still need to buy this

65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Ekf7USR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my
spotify:album:2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/exegeses

"Exegeses" is Anicon (New York City) debut album after an handful of eps and demos!
The band comprises members from the raging outfits of Krallice, Trenchgrinder, Geryon.. to name a few of their past and present CVs.

Digital and cd (digipack) preorder will start in mid June, for a release set on 07/07 (cd)

Vinyl will be released in late August 2016 by Gilead Media
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released July 7, 2016

Nolan Voss - Guitar & Vocals
Owen Rundquist - Guitar & Vocals
Alex DeMaria - Bass
Lev Weinstein - Drums

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Colin Marston
At Menegroth, Queens, NY, November 2015

All Photography by Kari Greer
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tags: black metal colin marston metal avantgarde metal dark metal doom metal krallice sund4rmetal Italy

I think I listened to a couple Anicon tracks last year but the full length totally eluded me.

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would; thought it was gonna be some kind of Cascadian or even avant-garde USBM, but it's just really well done melodic black metal. Nothing original but good enough to make my top 20.

yeah this album rocks

weirdly I only learned about it via the Steve Hoffman forums -- or at least via the meager metal thread that slithers around between the discussions of Steely Dan reissues

i can't even remember why i heard it